“Stilted” – The Helios Disaster by Linda Bostrom Knausgard
“Powerful and tragic” – You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr
“You may, as we did, guffaw” – Department of Mind-Blowing Theories by Tom Gauld
“Compellingly readable” – Out of Darkness, Shining Light by Petina Gappah
“An intense love letter to language, literature, life…” – Little Boy by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
“This is a Marmite kind of a novel” – The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy
“Who can have children and not go completely mad?” – Lanny by Max Porter
“Percipient and exquisitely rendered” – Constellations by Sinead Gleason
“It’s no that shite being Scottish, Irvine” – The Young Team by Graeme Armstrong
On the Pile: March 2020
“It will be considered a cult classic in twenty years” – The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (translated by Michele Hutchison)
“Worth reading for fans of coming-of-age novels” – English Monsters by James Scudamore
“An absolute blinder” – The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld
“A warning, if anyone remains willing to engage” – The Martian’s Regress by JO Morgan
“A dizzying sense of discontinuity” – The Runaways by Fatima Bhutto
“A startling piece of work” – Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
‘He’s a modern crime master’ – Long Range by CJ Box
“A refreshing perspective on loss” – Radical Acts of Love by Janie Brown
“The lyricism makes the story soar” – A Tall History of Sugar by Curdella Forbes
“Thoughtfully constructed, delicately expressed” – We, The Survivors by Tash Aw
“Acerbic, sharp, pointed” – All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg
“Twisty, contorted, secret-filled, thriller-cum-mystery ” – The Broken Ones by Ren Richards
“The darkest age” – Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann
“Infused with dry wit” – Weather by Jenny Offill
“Worth reading just for Barry’s flamboyant language” – A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry
“It’s a minor book, as Doyle’s go” – Charlie Savage by Roddy Doyle
“Requires more suspension of belief than I am mistress of” – Bobby March Will Live Forever by Alan Parks
“Wraithish fingers and ungentle mouths” – salt slow by Julia Armfield
